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Sarveshwar Dayal Saxena and his poems have long overwhelmed generations of children and adults alike. This fresh compilation of his most twisted yet savoury poems, with the title set to be pondered over Kitaabon Mein Billi Ne Bachhe Diye Hain, is a literary treat for all.

Saxena’s prominence lies in his unmatched skills of absurd extrapolation of ideas and yet almost always serving a sociological angle. The prime examples are his poems ‘Basant’, wherein a butterfly sits on a branch reading newspaper, which subsequently reminds me of Roy Andersson’s absurd masterpiece ‘A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence’;